Japanese airframe production

[FatR]

Use the "Request Veteran" option to draw pilots from TRACOM.

[findmeifyoucan]

Just a question about all these changes you plan to make to air production. How long do you think this will take to make all these changes and have everything producing, 3 years?? LOL

[Kitakami]

ORIGINAL: findmeifyoucan
Just a question about all these changes you plan to make to air production. How long do you think this will take to make all these changes and have everything producing, 3 years?? LOL

If said in jest, ignore my comment. But it does not take that long to make all those changes. In fact, I find them quite moderate. My personal prefence would be 20 Zeros less and 30 Oscars more, but that is merely a preference

[findmeifyoucan]

Okay, I am sure it would not take that long but with all the changes are you sure the supply expenditure is affordable for the Japanese? Aren't Zeros the better fighter plane? I would think you'd prefer the Zeros over the Oscars. While talking about Oscars I assume the c class is the best one though it would appear that the class a has much longer range.

[pacificbetta]

Zeroes are for carrier capabale IJN squadrons, and the oscars are meant for land based IJA squadrons. Both plane types cannot equip the squadrons of the "other" service arms.

[findmeifyoucan]

I always thought that there were both land based and Carrier based Zeros in War in the Pacific?

[pacificbetta]

There are LB zeroes in the game. What I was trying to say was that the oscar equipped squadrons cannot ever use zero. They are simply incompatible and that is why there is a need for oscar (or later replacement plan types) even though zero is a much better plane than oscar.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: findmeifyoucan

I always thought that there were both land based and Carrier based Zeros in War in the Pacific?

A6M2 is an IJN plane and can only equp IJN fgroups. You have a lot of IJA groups and for those you will need Oscar to start as it is your best IJA plane.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: findmeifyoucan

I always thought that there were both land based and Carrier based Zeros in War in the Pacific?

A6M2 is an IJN plane and can only equp IJN fgroups. You have a lot of IJA groups and for those you will need Oscar to start as it is your best IJA plane.

@findmeifyoucan:

You're correct, there are IJN land-based fighter units operating the A6M2 (and the Claude early in the war pre-upgrade). For the most part, these units start in the Marshall islands and Taiwan.

[treespider]

About to start re-reading old threads ... I a$$-u-me some of these are still relevant. Would this be a good one?

[PaxMondo]

sure ... there are a number of these.  they seem to recycle every month or two.  [;)]